What does "collocability" means in Spanish?

Question

am translating a chapter of a book about translation studies, exactly about terminology, and I found this very odd Englsh word. Please, someone intelligent and serious answer this question.

Answer 1

Wow, I've never seen that word before, but I came across this definition on a Google search:

The term 'collocation' is used here to refer to the tendency of cooccurrence of lexical items with other lexical items (http://www.koausa.org/Names/KP_names.html)

So I believe it has to do with how often a word is seen in proximity or association to other words; the word "night" has collocability with the word "dark". (http://ahds.ac.uk/litlangling/events/approaches/louw.htm)

The Spanish equivalent for this word is "colocabilidad"; if Spanish is your native language, you can search for this word and see if the results are helpful.

Answer 2

I have never seen the word "collocability", but it seems to be a form of the word "collocation". Collocation talks about which words go next to each other frequently. You should be able to search on "collocation" and find a definition. As far as an equivalent word in Spanish, I have no idea.

Answer 3

If I get this right, "collocability" are the rules in a language by which two words can or cannot be put together, as in "to do a favour" and not *"to make a favour".

If that's what you mean, I'm afraid there is no word for that in Spanish. If you say that "'Favour' collocates with 'do', not with 'make'", in Spanish you'd say "'Favour' va con 'do', y no con 'make'" Or: "Favour' se usa con..."

And collocability would be translated as something like "reglas de uso de palabras". But that's an entirely made-up expression. The word in Spanish does not exist.

Answer 4

K, here's what I think. The spanish word "colocar" means to place, to put, to locate something. So.... I would say that "collocability" is somewhere along the lines with "placement" or "locating." If you speak/read/understand spanish go to www.diccionario.com and enter "colocabilidad"

Answer 5

are you sure the word is "collocability"?